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Shrinking a Virtual disk in VMWare ESX-I 4

I need help, we are starting to virtualize to reduce cost of hardware. I used Acronis to create an image of the entire HDD of the server and moved it to an external HDD. The image is 160GB and when i try to convert it to a virtual disk using VM Converter Standalone Client it uses the entire disk and i get a Virtualized disk with 160GB. is there any way i can shrink it.
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When using converter, you can change the size of the disk. If you already created it, you can use a lot of tools to shrink. Also a neat trick is to use converter. Use source destination the same ESX, only different name.
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Thank you very much.